#tnpcto

[ourtalechara]

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Stupes mutuals

How y'all think Blake Midwinter texts

[rondoofdarkness]

for @ourtalechara since I know you like Blake

[free-ur-fav-or-mmmjuice]

@ourtalechara cause ik you like blake

Blake Midwinter has been mmm juiced!!!

[ourtalechara]

Op are you secretly me

omg i am so late to the party on The Stupendium's latest masterpiece, 'The North Pole Corporate Takeover', but i am in tears. this is exactly what Jack Frost does in The Santa Clause 3!!! 😂❄️

[ourtalechara]

Thinking about Blake Midwinter right now. Quite literally making keysmashes with my mouth

[rondoofdarkness]

@ourtalechara idk what to say just. here.

[ourtalechara]

The most replayed section of TNPCTO begins at 3:00

3:00 is at the end of the second chorus

Directly after the second chorus comes the third verse

The third verse is the one that begins with the TikTok dance

I don't know what this says about us. But I think it says something

[rondoofdarkness]

so now that chimney is giving me that skibidi rizz

[ourtalechara]

Just for the record, I was drawing fanart for The Muppets Cypher on Sunday night. I was planning on working on it Monday afternoon.

Then Stupes released a new song.

So thanks Stupes. You made me delay my fanart.

[rondoofdarkness]

i beg your finest fucking pardon

again. idk why but @ourtalechara

[rondoofdarkness]

how do you think people 100 years ago would react to us saying that we don't have flying cars but we do have a gay furry saying skibidi rizz

[rondoofdarkness]

how do you think people 100 years ago would react to us saying that we do NOT have flying cars but we DO have a gay furry saying skibidi rizz in a chrostmasnsong

[ourtalechara]

Dw auto complete will suggest skibidi rizz for me too

Stupes I love you but please do not say 'skibidi rizz' ever again in a song

[ourtalechara]

All those fantasies your families have

Told.

Are.

Trashed.

You want magic? Well that's tragic, cause we sold. Our. Stash.

It don't MATTER that our STRATEGIES are bold, harsh, brash

When we WAKE up to a GREAT big lump of

COLD! 🕶️

HARD! 🔴

CASH! 💵

[ourtalechara]

Guys what if we got the tiktok section of TNPCTO going as a thing on tiktok.

[ourtalechara]

Can I talk for a moment about the bridge to TNPCTO?

It's my favorite part of the song for various reasons. Due to it being slower, I find it easier and more fun to sing. It also helps change up the pacing relative to the rest of the song. These things might be why it reminds me of the bridge to The Production Line, as that's also a fast paced song that is given some more time to breathe during the bridge.

It's also the section that begins to really tell a story, or a story deeper than simply the takeover itself.

We've sent whimsy down your chimneys for the last two thousand years

The North Pole has, since Christmas first started, been the gifters of presents, whishes, joy. And they've liked it. (The next line may say they don't but shhhh yes they do it's referring to something else trust me)

And forgive me being grinchy but we've had it up to here

Oh look it's the next line. So. Uh. They're sick of this. Of what? Of having their frickin. Christmas stuff stolen.

Took our vision by committee and you've got commercial-eyes

Turned the mystique into mincemeat as you fought over the pie

You parsed our thing through marketing, commodified the cheer

A bunch of companies saw Christmas and were like "ooh. I could make money out of that."

So now you've got a lot of corporations that are trying to use the Christmas spirit as a marketing tactic. They're trying to take genuine joy and whimsy and crush it down into the fine mulch of progress, make a profit by manipulating something generally associated with joy into something that can benefit them.

And what does the North Pole say?

You'll hardly see us arguing; you've got the right idea

They say, "hey, that doesn't sound too bad"

"Why don't we do that?"

But you've dined free on our IP, so make it understood

That licensees, though fine to eat, don't bake the fudging pud

I kind of wish I had a better grasp on the exact meaning of these lines so I could examine them better. But, while I can't really explain them, I think I have a good general understanding of them: this is Christmas. This is our thing. We're going to do what we want with it, especially if it's something that's being done to it anyway.

The rest of the lyrics up until the chorus are still some of my favorites, but they also don't have too much to do with the theme I'm talking about, so I'm going to skip ahead to what is absolutely one of my favorite couplets from the whole song.

You guys chose to monetize it

So why can't those who devised it?

This is an extension of the same things that were said in the bridge, and perhaps what really brings it all together.

We own this. We made this. What right don't we have to do whatever you do to it?

If you want to complain that Christmas has ended up this way, what right did you have to get this ball rolling in the first place?

Isn't it hypocritical? Isn't this what you wanted?

No?

Then why did you start doing it?